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Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up

by Wednesday

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    160 gram "pilsner" yellow translucent vinyl LPs with full color labels in poly-lined innersleeves & extra heavyweight photo jackets, plus double-sided, full color, 11x11 mini-poster inserts. 9 tracks, 33 minutes.

    First vinyl pressing:
    600 copies on "pilsner" yellow translucent vinyl
    400 copies on classic black vinyl

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    160 gram classic black vinyl LPs with full color labels in poly-lined innersleeves & extra heavyweight photo jackets, plus double-sided, full color, 11x11 mini-poster inserts. 9 tracks, 33 minutes.

    First vinyl pressing:
    600 copies on "pilsner" yellow translucent vinyl
    400 copies on classic black vinyl

    VINYL ORDERS SHIP FEBRUARY 28, 2023

    Includes unlimited streaming of Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Professionally dubbed Super Ferric tapes in clear shells imprinted with gold ink. Tapes are packaged in full color photo J-cards & clear Norelco boxes. 9 tracks, 33 minutes.

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about

Wednesday owes so much to our musical influences. The music we love is a big part of what brought us together. My bandmates Margo and Xandy both had infamous Asheville house show venues, Jake was in like a billion different bands which often played in their muggy basements and Alan was usually the one who brought the PA. Our immersion in music predated us trying to make songs together ourselves.

Our common interests in noisey ‘90s guitars, good lyrics, and country music was quickly what permeated into our voice as a band. Most decisions in our songs are made by an amalgamation of all five of our inputs, which happens pretty naturally because of this thread of influences that ties us together.

So when we got an opportunity for some recording time with Alli Rogers at Betty’s studio in Durham, NC we decided to record covers, and hopefully repay in part the huge debt we are in to the artists who contributed so much to the music we write ourselves.

When I was thinking if there was anything that these songs have in common, the main thing I found recurring was the combination of sadness and humor. It’s effective as hell to combine the two emotions, making each other more intense by the contrast. Some of the masters of this included on this album of course are: Roger Miller, Vic Chesnutt, Gary Stewart and Drive-By Truckers.

Sonically, Medicine opened a world of sound to me: a soft voice paired with unrelenting industrial noise. And if you listen to Wednesday’s original music it goes without saying that the Pumpkins discography (at least ‘til 1998) is a sound we reference often and tether ourselves to.

Chris Bell is the master of the perfect musical “moment”. There are few lines in any song that hit me as hard as:

“Just when I was starting to feel okay, you’re on the phone. I never wanna be alone”

I mean… c'mon!!

There’s just one cover from a band we are lucky to call our peers and for the record I just wanna say Hotline TNT is one of the best bands out there. We stayed real true to the original song for that one… cause it’s pretty perfect as-is.

The later half of the album is songs recorded with my partner and frequent collaborator MJ Lenderman (the thing is… I love him!!) His music is probably my biggest influence out of anyone and I owe him a lot a lot a lot.

Anyways, if for whatever reason you're reading this and haven’t heard the original songs, I encourage you to look ‘em up! We tried our best to pay our respects but at the end of the day you can’t exactly replicate the magic of any of these tracks.

Making music (and hopefully living off it sometime soon) has been a dream come true for us. So thank you a million times to all the artists that paved the way for us…. Music rocks!!! Wow!!!

-Karly Hartzman

credits

released March 11, 2022

Tracks 1, 3 & 4 recorded and mixed at Betty’s by Alli Rogers
Track 2 recorded and mixed by Colin Miller at Haw Creek
Tracks 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 Recorded and mixed by MJ Lenderman; performed by MJ Lenderman and Wednesday
Mastered by Matt Barnhart

Vox, guitar & flute by Karly Hartzman
Vox & guitar by MJ Lenderman
Lap Steel by Xandy Chelmis
Bass by Margo Schultz
Drums by Alan Miller
Vox on 1 by Zach Romeo

Cover art by Cameron Heavener


1. She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)
Written by Wayne Carson Thompson
Copyright Bike Music o/b/o Lovolar Music

2. I Am The Cosmos
Written by Chris Bell
Copyright Ardent Music LLC o/b/o Koala Music

3. Lock Stock and Teardrops
Written by Roger Miller
Copyright Sony/ATV Tree Publishing

4. Women Without Whiskey
Written by John Michael Cooley
Copyright Hipgnosis International o/b/o Wayward Johnson Music

5. Had 2 Try
Written by Will Anderson
Copyright Will Anderson

6. Sacrifice (For Love)
Written by Greg Sage
Copyright BMG Bumblebee

7. Rabbit Box
Written by Vic Chesnutt
Copyright BMG Bumblebee o/b/o Ghetto Bells Music

8. Time Baby II
Written by Jim Putnam, Brad Laner, Elizabeth Anne Thompson, Jim Goodall, and Ed Ruscha
Copyright BMG Platinum Songs o/b/o Rosetta Vm Pka Virgin Music

9. Perfect
Written by William Corgan
Copyright Cinderful Music c/o Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.

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